Liberal Education Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his…
— Thomas Huxley
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the…
— Angelina Grimke
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A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of…
— Sidney Hook
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The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against…
— Chris Carter
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Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education,…
— Unknown Author
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To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history…
— John Quincy Adams
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs…
— Wendell Berry
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We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
— David McCullough
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The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father…
— Taslima Nasrin
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Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
— Alana Stewart
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
— Ellen Key
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I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to…
— Yi-Fu Tuan
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Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but…
— Aldo Leopold
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal…
— Joseph Joubert
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Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal…
— Richard Steele
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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